Sec. 222.002.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
(2)  "Commissioner" means the commissioner of state health services.
(3)  "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(3-a)  "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(4)  "Hospital" includes a public health center, a general hospital, or a tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, or other type of hospital, and related facilities such as a laboratory, outpatient department, nurses' home and training facility, or central service facility operated in connection with a hospital.
(5)  "Public health center" means a publicly owned facility for providing public health services and includes related facilities such as a laboratory, clinic, or administrative office operated in connection with a facility for providing public health services.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0566, eff. April 2, 2015.